MOONSHAKER

I don’t need your numb reactions.
I don’t need your fingers pointing.
I don’t need your alcoholics.
I don’t need your drug addictions.
All uptight when you couldn’t get connected.
No one else was listening.

I don’t have to worry now.
Cause I can’t stop you anyway.
You’re gone cause I kicked you out.
And you lied to our faces.
You’re out.

I’m doing the best I ever did.
You’re finally gone and I’m over it.
I didn’t owe you anything else.
You’re innocent.

I don’t need your sexual secrets.
I don’t need your coked up conversations.
I don’t need your two faced actions
I don’t have to worry about nothing.
Now that you’re gone and the weight has been lifted.
No one else is listening.

You lose again Moonshaker.
You lose again.
You loser.

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BREAKUP SONG

I never knew what to do, you were pulling my insides out.
Every time that you talked I never knew what you’re talking about.
There were times I thought you’d pull out of it but you’re stuck.
I’m not living in your world, it’ll keep on dragging me down.

Then I let you go.
Cause you wouldn’t leave me alone.
I’m not coming back anymore.
And I’ll make you a breakup song.

There were lipstick marks on my shirts but you’d wash them out.
I would say certain things cause I knew that they pissed you off.
There were times I’d hide by staying out every night.
Here’s a toast to us I’m drinking to cutting you out.

And I still think you’re miserable and you’re complaining every night.
You still don’t realize that you’re way to uptight.
And I still think you’re miserable and you’re still drinking every night.
You still don’t realize that you’re way to uptight.

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HIGHWAY TO THE SUN

Highway to the sun.
Packed our bags and we set a course, it’s our destined westward run.
Hit the road with a dream we believe that the best is yet to come.
Take me down where the palm trees grow and the streets are paved with gold.
It’s a fountain of youth we found, and the highway, it helps to keep us young.
When the city only makes you numb.

Said so long, to who we used to be
A new way of life for me.
We’re shedding what you’ve seen.
As we’re driving to the sea.
As we’re driving to the sea.

Highway to the sun
The road is a place where we can forget where we’re from.
But the truth gets in the way and we wonder, are we on the road or on the run?
And the answer only makes us numb.

Said so long, to who we used to be.
Lost the forest in the trees.
Missed out on all our dreams.
But it’s still shining gold to me.
It’s still shining gold me.
On the highway to the sun.
Back on highway 61.

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CROWN ROYAL

She’s a love lustin lady tonight
And I’m stuck working late all the time
When I finally get home on the weekend
she’s crown royal, drinking all the time.

Now I’m suspicious that she’s cat’n around
But she’s promised me she’s working till midnight
I need her love and it’s making me crazy
She pushed me out, and she took me for granted
I’m telling you

Even if you come crawling back on your hands
Begging me to give you a second chance
You left me alone and you put out the flame
I’m falling apart
I’m leaving tonight

I’m falling down drunk all the time
When I think about the things you would say to me
When it all comes back in your face
You’ll realize that you done me wrong

Even if you come crawling back on your hands
Begging me to give you a second chance
I don’t have to fight cause you’ve beaten it out of me
You were running around with another man

Either way, you are the only one
I’m telling you

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BULLET TRAIN

You get a failed transmission and a pounding inside your head
You’re getting beat up, ripped off with nothing to show in the end
In Philadelphia, they try to kick you down
Out in Hollywood, way down in London town

It goes by fast in a Bullet train
And we seem to be unstoppable
There is something inside that I can’t explain
I’m waiting for an answer
I’m in a crashing Bullet train
Confronting all your enemies
Losing all your memory
We blaze into the next town
Now we’re going southbound

You wanna live your dreams you got to pay all your dues instead
There are no American Anthems, no American girls in your bed
In Jersey City, they try to kick you down
Way up in Moscow, man that’s the toughest town

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OAK RIDGE

We are the dust that moves across this town
When I was young everything was golden all around
When the fair came to town, and the sawdust on the ground
The sounds of the carnival filled the air
Stay gold now

The ice on Jennings pond is all we need to
Just last week it dropped below 19 degrees
All the girls will be there and we just try not to stare
And you would pray that sun would not go down

Far out of sight far away from the city lights
I threw away all of my history
It’s hard to explain you might think it’s a little strange
It’s a crazy little town, oh and I would have to agree
It’s just Oak Ridge to me

On the summer days you walked to the reservoir
Or you can ride your bike to Willard’s country store
The graveyard held the football games
We saw the stones and we read the names
But we were much too young to understand

I left home in my 18th year.
But if I close my eyes the crickets I still hear
If you listen real close you can hear our ghosts
Riding on through the trails in old pierce avenue

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AMERICAN GIRL

I was sailing around the world
Too young to be afraid
I was thinking of my girl
She was brilliant I was brave
I was stranded out at sea
Tracer bullets lit the night
I was gonna make it home
I was gonna make her mine

I was proud to hear that sound
of the American Anthem that night
You don’t have to worry
I’m coming home

Parading in the streets
I was 21 years old
The band was playing loud
Women dancing through the crowd
Convertible cars
Oh the wind was in my hair
She was standing like a dream
In the spring of 45’

I knelt down
I heard that sound
Of the American Anthem that night
You don’t have to worry, I’m finally home
American girl

I’m home, American girl

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SAVE ME

I was born to be restless, I can’t sleep
’cause the southern missile stole my time
Start my life on the run
point my wheels at the sun
and I drive till I close my eyes.

The dashboard drummer starts the music
As I drive through the Philadelphia night
Let the dust be my wake
put the candles on the cake
Make a wish then you blow them out

It’s not in the cards tonight
Not in the diamonds that you hold
Not in the cards tonight

I know it will save me
Hit the highway and I’ll leave tonight
In the past it would break me
Rolling stone, I’m a satellite
I wouldn’t do this if I knew I could choose
It’s the carnival life but it won’t save me now

I’m proud and brave through the great plains
With the heart of a soldier on my sleeve
I’m a causeway star
I’m a roadside bar
I’m a fire in the cold desert night

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RICH AND FAMOUS

Warhol had your number
You’re 15 seconds in
The clock is ticking, the phone is ringing
You tell them you have sinned

Your Daddy said you’re nothing
Just wait till he sees
Flashing some dude right on the tube
Now you’re a big celebrity

Now everybody wants you, oh yeah.
Everybody loves you, oh Lord
Turn on the TV and you will see
How everybody wants to be rich and famous now

Now you’re selling papers
Now you’re on the scene
Lose that weight
Get into shape
Get plastic surgery

In and out of rehab
Such glamorous debris
White trash lady turned high class shady
It’s me, me, me, me, me

Your time is almost over
Never lived life off the screen
America found it’s next top model
And it’s not your face they need

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MARIGOLD

Little miss marigold
Moved her things out today
She Moved back to Memphis
She left a little bouquet

It read…. I don’t deserve this
You were gambling again
I gave you all that I could handle
But baby I’m gone and I’m never coming back
You’ll never change, you’ll never get on track

By the time that you read this
I’ll be in the Smokies again
And this train it will rattle
But baby I’m gone and I’m never coming back
You know its hard when your dreams are in your sights

You’ll never change
You’re a disaster
I’m leaving today
To find what I’m after
I’m worth the wait
Believe in what you say

I see her in pictures
In all magazines
You can tear out the pages
But all she ever needed
was someone who believed
I know I’ve changed
But I’ll never make it right

You’ll never change
You’re a disaster
You left me in vain
You left me in tatters
I’m worth the wait
Believe in what you say
Believe in what you say

I bet you live by the ocean
Your marigolds in May
Back here the leaves are all falling
Baby I was wrong
Even though I thought I was right
I know it’s hard
When your dreams are in your sights
When your dreams are in your sights

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